[Sixteenth-century book]. [Turkey]. GEUFFROY (Antoine); HÖNI - Lot 141

[Sixteenth-century book]. [Turkey]. GEUFFROY (Antoine); HÖNIGER (Nikolaus), eds. Pars I. Aulae Turcicae, othomanniciqu'e imperii descriptio: qua Turcarum Palatina officia, mores, religio enarrantur... - Pars II. Solymanni XII. & selymi XIII. Turcar. impp. Contra Christianos : vicissimque Christianorum contra hos res gestae, ab anno M. D. XX. Usque in praesentem annum M. D. LXXVII. Peractae... [at colophons] : Basileae, per S. Henricpetri, 1577. Two parts in one large volume in-8, [44] f., 509 p., [1] f. ; [8] f., 728 p., [12] f., antique ivory vellum with overlaps, smooth spine, title in modern ink, remains of laces (spine a little grayed; very moderate sporadic russeting, some browning). Important collection of chronicles and accounts of the wars between the Turks and Christians and various other historical elements. Compiled by Nikolaus Höniger (1548-1598), an erudite printer and translator. The first part contains in particular the Latin translation of the Brève description de la cour du Grand Turc et un sommaire du règne des Othomans originally published in French by Antoine Geuffroy. Other items include Bernhard von Breydenbach's De Armeniorum et Georgianorum moribus ... epitome, and writings by Bessarion, Barth. Durdevic, Paolo Emi, G.B. Spagnuoli and J. Turmair. Handwritten acquisition note dated 1776 on one endpaper. (USTC 681351; VD 16 G1914).